A great news update: Katie gets to come home tomorrow (Sunday)!! YEAH!!! The hospital room has been stripped of all the decorations, and it’s back to looking like a hospital room, as it should. Katie is ready to leave the minute they say, “Go!” Her counts (ANC) has been fluctuating downward a bit (nothing critical – except...
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Thank you for your prayers for Katie! I believe God has heard our prayers, and these prayers have helped her rebound from her lung infection. Though her lungs are not totally clear, she is doing much, much better. In fact, we had been told that as her counts began to recover, we would likely see her get worse...
Having a little difficulty sleeping tonight, so I picked up my devotional (the best one I have found for times such as these, Streams in the Desert, L.B. Cowman). This devotional is not for those times when things are going well, but for when times are difficult. So, I thought I would share what I read tonight...
This will be a short post as Michael and I need to wake up early so we can be in San Francisco for a 10:00 AM consultation with UCSF transplant team. This is for a second opinion regarding her future treatment. The options for a transplant hospital are Stanford and UCSF, and we wanted to...
Katie is now on the upswing — fevers are becoming less frequent and less high; a recent x-ray shows the lung infection is starting to clearup (though she is still coughing some); her biopsy on Monday, under visual examination was liquidy (this is good); and her ANC is now a little over 100! All good signs. If...